Sherlock Holmes
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- Jul 1, 2024
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Well I have no idea if there's a UN resolution stating an interpretation of the Palestine mandate, if you know of such a thing please share it, I'd certainly be interested in reading it.You mean the way the UN interprets it.
Bear in mind though the British had previously agreed to facilitate Arab independence in return for Arab assistance in routing the Ottomans.
The secret Sykes-Picot agreement was an agreement between the colonial powers as to how to partition the former Ottoman territory to give Britain, France etc. a chunk of territory to rule.
The British however were traitors and betrayed the Arabs, because they had agreed (see the McMahon Hussein letters) to formally recognize Arab independence but later published the Balfour Declaration promising a national home for Jews in Palestine and enraging the Arabs.
Thus from 1918 onwards the Arabs distrusted the British for agreeing to support Jewish independence in a land with few Jews and sidelining any support for Arab independence. A this time there were an estimated 56,000 Jews in Palestine and some ten times as many Arabs, Jews were less than 10% of the population.
So I don't see how we can airbrush out Arab interests and goals here, and instead focus on British geopolitical ambitions and Zionist nationalist ambitions when Jews were only 10% of the population.